Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Charleston [Lewes], to John Maynard Keynes, [1917 May 15?].

BIB_ID
282712
Accession number
MA 3448.32
Creator
Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961.
Display Date
[1917 May 15?].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, special gift of the Gramercy Park Foundation (Mrs. Michael Tucker), 1980.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection that consists of 84 autograph letters, 3 typed letters, 7 postcards, and 3 telegrams. Most, but not all, are written by Vanessa Bell to John Maynard Keynes. Items in this collection are described in 97 individual records (MA 3448.1-97).
The letter is dated "Tuesday."
Summary
Telling him he cannot come the weekend he planned to visit because so many others will be visiting then, including "Saxon [Sydney-Turner] and Barbara [Hiles] in a tent"; inviting him for the following weekend; complaining that Barbara "seems to mean to spend the summer here in her tent": "I don't know how one's to prevent anyone who likes from pitching their tent at one's door except by being as unmistakeably hostile as the Woolves" [Leonard and Virginia Woolf].